Worth a Glam

Carey Perloff rebuilt San Francisco's Geary Theater and re-energized an actor's conservatory. Ten years after she began this dramatic turnaround, gutsy artistic choices and an innovative style are again bringing down the house.

by Diane Rogers

Is Palo Alto a college town? Was it ever? Take a jaunt down University Avenue, past and present, and a look at students' ties to the town Leland Stanford built.

by Mark Simon

Detained at a desolate outpost in San Francisco Bay, Chinese immigrants in the early 20th century faced humiliation and despair in an America eager to keep them out. Thanks to a Stanford graduate, their stories are finally being told.

by Diane Rogers

A confidante and friend to leading members of the left's intelligentsia in the 1920s, later a stalwart presence at the Hoover Institution, Ella Wolfe was usually found behind the scenes. Now, her personal papers reveal the remarkable woman few people really knew.

by Jeanene Harlick

Despite the poverty and neglect of his boyhood, one Salvadoran street child aimed high. But as a young ethnographer learned, 11-year-old Noe never had a chance.

by Jocelyn Wiener

Thirty-two years ago, ROTC left campus in a firestorm of antiwar sentiment. Today, the program still attracts students from the Farm, who commute to nearby campuses to participate. Are they getting enough credit?

by Joshua Davis

They’re tiny, dimwitted and utterly unmanaged, so how do ants accomplish so much? After two decades of deep digging, researcher Deborah Gordon may be close to understanding ants‘ collective intelligence and what we can learn from it.

by Mitchell Leslie

Neurobiologist Robert Sapolsky joined a troop of baboons and got in touch with his inner primate.

by Christopher Vaughan

In a career-driven culture cluttered with "stuff," millions of Americans are looking for solace in simplicity.

by Nina Schuyler

A newsman reflects on the deadliest conflict in history.

by Frank Tremaine